Top 236 Reproduction Quotes & Sayings

If freedom means anything at all, it is the right to primacy in regard to sexuality, reproduction, medical care and death.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

I'm telling you that at eight she knew more about reproduction than Xerox.

The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.

Reproduction is so primitive and fundamental a function of vital organisms that the mechanism by which it is assured is highly complex and not yet clearly understood. It is not necessarily connected with sex, nor is sex necessarily connected with reproduction.

STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.

Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction.

I've always been interested in the economics of reproduction, who gets what they want when it comes to childbearing and how these days, money is a tremendous advantage.

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.

Gah, some chicks should be shot. Put out of everyone else's reproduction pool.

Whatever each individual woman is facing; only she knows her biggest challenge. However, if we add up the problems that affect the biggest numbers of women, then issues having to do with physical safety and reproduction are still the biggest. Female bodies are still the battleground, whether that means restricting freedom, birth control and safe abortion in order to turn them into factories, or abandoning female infants because females are less valuable for everything other than reproduction.

The default of our society is the reproduction of racial inequality. I mean, that's what it does; that's what it's been doing for hundreds of years.

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

The human race could not go on without reproduction, and marriage creates the most secure environment in which to raise children.

Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing.

The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.

Just as I wouldn't expect a gynecologist to have a debate with somebody who believes in the Stork-theory of reproduction, I won't do debates with Young Earth creationists.

I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.

If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

If you put out 20 films, you hope that a number are successful. It's like human reproduction versus frog reproduction. Frogs produce thousands and hope a few succeed. Humans don't produce many babies but put a lot of energy into them, which is kind of where we are. They still don't always succeed, but you try a lot harder.

Thus ordered thinking arises out of the ordered course of nature in which man finds himself, and this thinking is from the beginning nothing more than the subjective reproduction of the regularity according to the law of natural phenomena. On the other hand, this reproduction is only possible by means of the will that controls the concatenation of ideas.

Every animal on the planet attracts mates with the goal of reproduction. Frogs swell their bodies. Male gorillas beat their chests. Have you ever watched a male lobster rise up on the tips of his legs and snap his claws, demanding female attention? Attraction is the first element of all animal reproduction, humans included

The Strandbeest is a self-replicating meme, a brain virus. It infects the student's brain. In fact, the Strandbeest abuse students for their reproduction. For two years, this reproduction fell into a flow acceleration. Now, 3D printers produce walking mini Strandbeests.

Being able to control your reproduction is essential to women's ability to flourish in the United States.

The three "F"s of being a werewolf, Feeding, Fighting, and...Reproduction

Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.

Human reproduction can be a sticky subject—” “Ewww!” groaned a chorus of students

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.

The general rule is that anything that is passed on in reproduction does not undergo senescence.

In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.

Since we're not very good at something as basic as controlling our reproduction, life is really bad for more people than ever before.

The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.

Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.

Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female role as reproduction.

Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration.

A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves.

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.

By God’s design, he has wired his children for spiritual reproduction. He has woven into the fabric of every single Christian’s DNA a desire and ability to reproduce.

Most people understand that sexual lust has to do with propagating genes. Copulation in nature tends to lead to reproduction and so to more genetic copies. But in modern society, most copulations involve contraception, designed precisely to avoid reproduction. Altruism probably has origins like those of lust.

The androcentric, patriarchal cultures, whatever you want to call it, are quite new. So, every economic statement should start with reproduction, not production. Every statement for human rights ought to include reproduction as a basic human right, like freedom of speech.

No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the rate of human reproduction is too slow and the expense from infant mortality and years of unproductive upkeep of the young make this prohibitively expensive. This relationship is one of the basic causes of the American Civil War, and was even more significant in destroying ancient Rome.

Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.

Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we shall have war.

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.

Even in ordinary reproduction [photography] verges on facsimile.

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.

I'm the female equivalent of a counterfeit $20 bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, the rest is a fraud.

Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.

Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.

Therefore, I reasoned that study of the cell cycle responsible for the reproduction of cells was important and might even be illuminating about the nature of life.

In no sense other than an utterly trivial one is reproduction the inverse of chemical disintegration. It is a misunderstanding of genetics to suppose that reproduction is only 'intended' to make facsimiles, for parasexual processes of genetical exchange are to be found in the simplest living things.

Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

Men's reproduction isn't regulated by the state -- and it shouldn't be. Neither should women's.

Certainly, my friends and the common narrative is people are trying to shore up their own lives with regards to family planning and reproduction.